Today we had the first Bookie sprint of the year. The five of us got together at my place for the main purpose of working on starting a Firefox extension for Bookie.

We ended up pairing up into a couple different tasks. Will and Adam started work on the firefox extension. It looks like they started to get a feel around the sdk and some real progress got forward on that front. It's not quite doing API calls, but I'm excited about how that's going together now.

Matt and Craig worked on some updates for the Chrome extension. We pushed a new updated 0.4 dev version with the delete functions restored and some spinner updates working. It took a bit of time to get things figured out, but what's nice is that the change was really pretty small once everyone got their heads around the JS driving the extension. In a way I like that adding in a feature was so little amount of code. Hopefully we'll be doing some more cool things with the extension going forward.

I spent time working with helping people get up to speed. I also finally updated all the Python side unit/functional tests to pass after all the changes that have gone on under the hood. I also worked on fixing a bug where the API calls wouldn't work unless you had logged into the bmark.us website. Now API calls with valid username/api_key credentials should work just fine. This will hopefully reduce some confusion with getting the extensions going.

We're down to the last few items to getting the 0.4 release out the door. I'm excited with the changes in this release and really excited to start tackling some exciting new changes in my time at PyCon next month. I hope to sprint on some user registration backend and some background processing of tasks. That should get me back into some fun Python side of things vs all the JS code I've been doing recently.

As always, we'd love to have help with any of these projects and anything else you'd like to see updated in Bookie. Hop in irc at #bookie and let's chat.

Thanks again to Will, Craig, Matt, and Adam for a great time sprinting and getting a lot done today. Always good to see others getting interested and involved in the work you do. Maybe one day, we'll get a real community going around Bookie. That'd be awesome.